Business Finland funding

R&D funding, Innovation Voucher to purchase new knowledge or skills, Into to buy innovation expertise and Innovative Public Procurements for public procurement units.

Research to Business Funding, Co-Creation Funding, Co-Innovation Funding and Co-Research Funding

Test the functionality of the business concept, explore demand and obtain feedback from potential customers.

Talent funding is suitable for SMEs and midcap companies that want to improve their capacity for international growth by creating working, organizational, and management practices that support internationalization and improve their ability to increase the number of international experts in Finnish companies.

Hire or acquire know-how for international market entry, participate in a foreign trade fair with an SME group or assemble a group of SMEs for joint export opportunities.

Funding service accelerating the global growth of the most ambitious, rapidly growing startups.

Welcome to join us in building new billion-euro export businesses in Finland!

​Energy aid can be granted to climate- and environment-friendly investment and investigation projects that increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

A Material Audit investigates the amount of waste generated by your business operations, the costs of the waste, and measures for reducing waste.

Production incentive is 25 % cash rebate for production costs in Finland.

We can grant state aid for shipbuilding innovations in order to secure favourable preconditions for innovation in the sector.

Investments made in Finland with significant positive environmental impacts may receive funding.

Business Finland challenges global companies to lead ecosystems that consist of companies of different sizes and other players.

Funding for Innovation and Growth Research is suitable for research organizations studying the impact of global challenges on Finnish businesses and society.

You will find all the necessary guidelines for applicants, project management and reporting from these pages.

Was your company’s funding application approved? This page contains instructions on how to start, monitor and report on your project.

Business Finland projects' funding terms.

How to monitor project costs and how to report the costs? How to arrange project accounting?

Instructions for Business Finland project reporting

Information pack for auditors

For most project changes, you will need advance consent from Business Finland, but in some cases a notification will suffice.

Loan for development and piloting